/*
Simple Forum Auto Poster.
Copyright (C) 2011 Gianni Van Hoecke.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
package domain.forumdata;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
 *
 * @author Gianni Van Hoecke <gianni.vh@gmail.com>
 *
 * This class contains the post queue for batch posting.
 * The queue will be saved automatically to the disk.
 */
public class Queue implements Serializable
{
    private ArrayList<Post> queue;

    /**
     * Default constructor. Initializes an empty queue.
     */
    public Queue()
    {
        this.queue = new ArrayList<Post>();
    }

    /**
     * @return The queued posts.
     */
    public ArrayList<Post> getQueue()
    {
        return queue;
    }

    /**
     * Searches if there's an exact same post availble. (Except for the date and topic URLs.)
     * @param p The parameters.
     * @return The post object if there is one. null if p is unique.
     */
    public Post getExactPost(Post p)
    {
        for(Post op : this.queue)
        {
            if(op.getTopicTitle().equals(p.getTopicTitle()) &&
                    op.getTopicSubtitle().equals(p.getTopicSubtitle()) &&
                    op.getPost().equals(p.getPost()) &&
                    op.getTag().getTagName().equals(p.getTag().getTagName()) &&
                    op.getCat().getName().equals( p.getCat().getName()))
            {
                //We have a match!
                return op;
            }
        }

        return null;
    }
}